Human Dissection in Medical Education: More than Just Anatomy
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The dissection course is an essential component of the medical curriculum. Nonetheless, the time expenditure and intensity of supervising the students in this course has been diminishing since the 1970s. That endangers not only the transmission of fundamental knowledge of anatomy. It also concerns key concepts such as establishing values, the concept of humans, and physician competencies, because medical education must be seen not merely as fact-directed instruction but instead should be connected with a mission for professional acculturation.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 33 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016